Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...America's gambling fever has never been confined to games of chance. After the 1794 yellow fever epidemic, bets were made on the number of the dead. Bettors so pressured steamboat captains to race one another that passengers bribed, pleaded and fought for berths farthest away from the boilers. "Bet-a-Million" Gates, who would bet on anything, used to moisten a lump of sugar and bet $1,000 a fly on how many flies would alight on it. In 1944, General Eisenhower bet ?5 that his troops would reach the German border by Christmas-but lost. Al Capone...
Green Stamps. There was room for improvement. In 1959 and 1960, his first two years as Governor, Rockefeller had skylarked around the country with an acute case of presidential fever, had paid little attention to New York affairs and had incurred the hostility of many state Republican legislators, including State Senate G.O.P. Leader Walter Mahoney...
...Rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease are largely preventable with prompt penicillin treatment of "strep throat," but take 20,000 lives annually...
...speculation got out of hand on Wall Street? Many Wall Streeters fear that in some areas it has. The stock exchanges, acutely aware of the rising fever in the big bull market, are doing what they can to tamp it. The New York Stock Exchange announced last week that it will tighten up its requirements for getting a stock listed. The American Stock Exchange, for the first time in its history, put a ban on stop orders-automatic orders to sell a stock once it reaches a specified price during a decline-on all round-lot transactions...
...fall; even the newly offered stock of so solid a company as Ford dropped below its issuing price shortly after it came out 5 years ago-and stayed below it for 3 years. For such reasons, many Wall Streeters would like to see more done to curb the speculative fever, lest it bring on a painful shake-out that would harm thousands of small investors and, as in '29, give the Street a bad name that would take years to live down...